Mathew Nolton Blog

Implementing the Multi-Threaded Singleton…Can it be done without the double-check locking mechanism?

Always in search of a good joke. A friend of mine sent me this "eBay Humor" and I thought I would share it with everyone. If you have a few moments, it is definately worth a quick read.

I have been sitting in meetings the last couple of days in San Francisco. For the last 6 months, I have been in the throws of creating an n-tier application architecture for a series of webservices for a large cable company in Atlanta and we have been having a great deal of success.

The services are doing a great job of interacting with a myriad of systems including a 3rd party customer billing system running on an AS/400....argggg. Oracle, Microsoft SqlServer as well as some other homegrown systems. What is really exciting is that many of these services are now going to be consumed by an Interactive TV Systems.

Gang, this is some exciting stuff. Not just what I am working on, but the utter potential. It is already all over Europe and the US is playing catch-up, but the US will catch up (we always do ;) ). Gaming, purchasing, ecommerce...you name it. The whole world is still in the infancy of the mass potential of this market.

-Mathew Nolton

Repurposing Enumerations

My new years resolution was to get back into writing. Specifically, writing technical articles...and maybe a book someday. Here is a quick little diddy on “Repurposing Enumerations”.

It is common knowledge that it is always best to write small and tight classes and class functions. Aside from the fact that it makes your classes easier to maintain and understand, your assemblies are lighter and easier to load and unload by the CLR. An interesting thread, on gotdotnet pointed to an interesting fact described on MSDN.

Some of you may post on some of the Technical Boards out there. Me, I prefer GotDotNet. There is a great flow of information on a range of subjects with a number of .Net subject matter experts. Furthermore, there are a large number of off-topic discussions on a range of subjects. Recently, I started posting to the ASP.NET board. It too is a great board for posting and getting technical information...except for the extremely annoying moderation of nearly every topic. I posted a topic out there Why...Why...Why must all comments be moderated to dicuss this very fact.